The Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction was awarded to Stalin’s Daughter by Rosemary Sullivan (Harper Canada). Following the Giller Prize shortlist earlier in the week, finalists were announced for Canada Governor General’s Awards. Rachel Cusk‘s Outline is now a contender for both awards. Joining her on the Governor General’s nominees for English-language fiction are: How You Were Born, Kate Cayley (Pedlar Press) The Evening Chorus, Helen Humphreys (Harper Canada) The Winter Family, Clifford Jackman (Random House Canada) Daddy Lenin and Other Stories, Guy Vanderhaeghe (McClelland & Stewart) Kathrin Scheel has started a new foreign rights agency based in Hamburg, […]
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People: Henning Mankell Dies, and More
Henning Mankell, 67, author of Kurt Wallander series of detective novels and over 40 works of fiction and theater, died Monday from complications of neck and lung cancer. Mankell’s crime novels sold more than 40 million copies around the world and were filmed as series for Swedish TV and the BBC (the latter starring Kenneth Branagh.) A spokeperson for his UK publishers Harvill Secker said in a statement: “Beloved by readers across the world, especially for his Kurt Wallander series, it was a privilege to have worked with a man of such talent and passion, and to have been his […]
Shapiro Leads November Indie Next List
The ABA’s Indie Next list makes author of The Art Forger B.A. Shapiro’s follow-up effort The Muralist their No. 1 pick for November. Welcome to Night Vale, by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor Slade House, by David Mitchell An Old-Fashioned Christmas, by Ellen Stimson Dear Mr. You, by Mary-Louise Parker The Mare, by Mary Gaitskill The Improbability of Love, by Hannah Rothschild Carrying Albert Home, by Homer Hickam Home Is Burning, by Dan Marshall After Alice, by Gregory Maguire The Japanese Lover, by Isabel Allende Along the Infinite Sea, by Beatriz Williams Avenue of Mysteries, by John Irving The Lake House, by […]
October Bookseller Picks
Amazon’s spotlight pick for October is Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt and their featured debut is Mrs. Engels by Gavin McCrea, from the newly-launched publisher Catapult. The rest of their best books of October are: Pretty Girls, Karin Slaughter City on Fire, Garth Risk Hallberg Find a Way, Diana Nyad Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo Thirteen Ways of Looking, Colum McCann The Last of the President’s Men, Bob Woodward The Devil’s Chessboard, David Talbot Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, Sarah Vowell My Kitchen Year, Ruth Reichl This month, there is almost no overlap between Amazon’s picks and the […]
Awards: 5 Under 35; Kirkus Prize Shortlists; No Folio Prize in 2016; and More
1. The National Book Foundation announced its latest roster of 5 Under 35 honorees Wednesday morning on BuzzFeed, including Angela Flournoy, whose debut novel The Turner House (HMH) is also on the current National Book Awards fiction longlist. The other honorees are: Colin Barrett, Young Skins (Black Cat) Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Fra Keeler (Dorothy Project) Tracy O’Neill, The Hopeful (Ig Publishing) Megan Kruse, Call Me Home (Hawthorne Books) 2. The Kirkus Prize announced shortlists in fiction, nonfiction, and various children’s book categories, with the winners to be announced at a ceremony in Austin, TX on October 15. In fiction, […]
People: Stein Resumes Editing for FSG; MacArthur Honorees; and More
Lorin Stein will once again edit books for Farrar, Straus, as editor-at-large — while continuing to work full-time as editor of the Paris Review, which he joined in 2010 after 12 years at FSG. The plan is for Stein to edit four to eight books, by such authors as Ben Lerner, Richard Price, Lydia Davis, and Donald Antrim. “I’m delighted to have a foot in the book business and to work on longer projects with writers and colleagues I admire so much,” Stein said in the announcement. “My commitment to The Paris Review, and for scouting out what is best and most […]